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v5.17: Noteworthy changes in strace 5.17 (2022-03-26)

2022-03-26T08:00:00Z

Noteworthy changes in strace 5.17 (2022-03-26)

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* Improvements
* Added 64-bit LoongArch architecture support.
* Extended personality designation syntax of syscall specification expressions
to support all@pers and %class@pers.
* Enhanced rejection of invalid syscall numbers in syscall specification
expressions.
* Implemented decoding of set_mempolicy_home_node syscall, introduced
in Linux 5.17.
* Implemented decoding of IFLA_GRO_MAX_SIZE and TCA_ACT_IN_HW_COUNT netlink
attributes.
* Implemented decoding of PR_SET_VMA operation of prctl syscall.
* Implemented decoding of siginfo_t.si_pkey field.
* Implemented decoding of LIRC ioctl commands.
* Updated lists of FAN_*, IORING_*, IOSQE_*, KEY_*, KVM_*, MODULE_INIT_*,
TCA_ACT_*, and *_MAGIC constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.17.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

* Dmitry V. Levin
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Jonathan Borne
* Masatake YAMATO
* Sean Young
* Slava Bacherikov
* Sven Schnelle
* WANG Xuerui

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.

v5.16: Noteworthy changes in strace 5.16 (2022-01-10)

2022-01-10T08:00:00Z

Noteworthy changes in strace 5.16 (2022-01-10)

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* Improvements
* Implemented --secontext=mismatch option to find mismatches in SELinux
contexts.
* Implemented decoding of futex_waitv syscall introduced in Linux 5.16.
* Implemented decoding of BPF_LINK_GET_NEXT_ID and BPF_LINK_GET_FD_BY_ID bpf
syscall commands.
* Enhanced decoding of BPF_MAP_CREATE, BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN, and BPF_PROG_LOAD
bpf syscall commands.
* Enhanced decoding of BTRFS_IOC_FS_INFO ioctl command.
* Updated lists of AUDIT_*, BPF_*, BTRFS_*, DEVCONF_*, FAN_*, ETH_P_*,
IPV4_DEVCONF_*, KVM_*, NDA_*, SO_*, and V4L2_* constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.16.

* Bug fixes
* Fixed build for older Android.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

* Ahelenia Ziemiańska
* André Almeida
* Chih-Hsuan Yen
* Dmitry V. Levin
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Paul Chaignon
* Renaud Métrich
* Sahil Kang

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.

v5.15: Noteworthy changes in strace 5.15 (2021-12-01)

2021-12-01T17:00:00Z

Noteworthy changes in strace 5.15 (2021-12-01)

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* Improvements
* Implemented --strings-in-hex=non-ascii-chars option for using hexadecimal
numbers instead of octal ones in escape sequences in the output strings.
* Implemented --decode-pids=comm option (and its alias -Y) for printing
command names for PIDs.
* Implemented --decode-pids=pidns as an alias to --pidns-translation option.
* Implemented printing of current working directory when AT_FDCWD constant
is used with --decode-fds=path option enabled.
* Improved printing of syscall names in places where the associated
AUDIT_ARCH_* value is present (ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request,
SIGSYS siginfo_t).
* Implemented decoding of process_mrelease syscall, introduced in Linux 5.15.
* Implemented decoding of SECCOMP_GET_NOTIF_SIZES operation of seccomp
syscall.
* Implemented decoding of HDIO_*, KD*, and SECCOMP_* ioctl commands.
* Implemented decoding of RTM_NEWCACHEREPORT, RTM_{NEW,DEL,GET}NEXTHOP,
and RTM_{NEW,GET}STATS NETLINK_ROUTE netlink messages.
* Implemented decoding of AF_ALG, AF_IEEE802154, AF_MCTP, AF_NFC, AF_QIPCRTR,
AF_RRPC, AF_VSOCK, and AF_XDP socket addresses.
* Implemented decoding of AF_BRIDGE and AF_MCTP protocols for IFLA_AF_SPEC
netlink attribute.
* Implemented decoding of IFLA_BR_MCAST_QUERIER_STATE, IFLA_BR_MULTI_BOOLOPT,
IFLA_INET6_RA_MTU, IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_DATA, and IFLA_VFINFO_LIST netlink
attributes.
* Enhanced decoding of io_uring_register and times syscalls.
* Enhanced IFLA_BR_FORWARD_DELAY, IFLA_BR_MAX_AGE, IFLA_EXT_MASK,
IFLA_PROTINFO, *_INTVL, and *_TIMER netlink attribute decoding.
* Enhanced decoding of AF_IPX and AF_NETLINK socket addresses.
* Updated lists o AF_*, ARPHRD_*, BTRFS_*, DEVCONF_*, DM_*, ETH_P_*,
FAN_REPORT_*, IORING_*, MOVE_MOUNT_*, MPOL_*, PACKET_*, RTM_*, SO_*,
and XFRM_MSG_* constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.15.

* Bug fixes
* Fixed printing of struct bpf_prog_info.map_ids array.
* Fixed behaviour of "dev", "pidfd", and "socket" arguments of the --print-fds
option to no longer imply the "path" argument.
* Fixed insufficient buffer size used for network interface name printing,
that previously led to assertions on attempts of printing interface names
that require quoting, for example, names longer than 4 characters in -xx
mode (addresses RHBZ bug #2028146).

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

* Alex Xu (Hello71)
* Dmitry V. Levin
* Elvira Khabirova
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Masatake YAMATO
* Paulo Andrade
* Renaud Métrich
* Srikavin Ramkumar
* Victor Krapivensky
* Ákos Uzonyi

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.

v5.14: Noteworthy changes in strace 5.14 (2021-09-02)

2021-09-02T08:00:00Z

Noteworthy changes in strace 5.14 (2021-09-02)

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* Improvements
* Implemented decoding of memfd_secret and quotactl_fd syscalls,
introduced in Linux 5.14.
* Enhanced prctl syscall decoding.
* Enhanced decoding of IFLA_* netlink attributes.
* Enhanced decoding of MDBA_ROUTER_PATTR_* mdb router port netlink attributes.
* Updated lists of BPF_*, IORING_*, MADV_*, MOUNT_ATTR_*, SCTP_*,
and UFFD_* constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.14.

* Bug fixes
* Fixed build using bionic libc.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

* Anatoly Pugachev
* Dmitry V. Levin
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.

v5.13: Noteworthy changes in strace 5.13 (2021-07-18)

2021-07-18T18:00:00Z

Noteworthy changes in strace 5.13 (2021-07-18)

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* Improvements
* Print netlink data in a more structured way.
* Implemented decoding of NT_PRSTATUS and NT_FPREGSET regsets
of PTRACE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET requests.
* Implemented decoding of regs argument of PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_GETREGS64,
PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS64, PTRACE_GETFPREGS, and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
requests.
* Implemented powerpc System Call Vectored ABI support.
* Implemented decoding of landlock_add_rule, landlock_create_ruleset,
and landlock_restrict_self syscalls introduced in Linux 5.13.
* Enhanced decoding of perf_event_open syscall.
* Updated lists of BPF_*, IORING_*, KEXEC_*, KEY_*, KVM_*, NT_*, PR_*,
PTRACE_*, RTM_*, RTPROT_*, TRAP_*, UFFD_*, UFFDIO_*, and V4L2_* constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.13.

* Portability
* On powerpc and powerpc64, linux kernel >= 2.6.23 is required.
Older versions without a decent PTRACE_GETREGS support will not work.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

* Alyssa Ross
* Deborah Brouwer
* Dmitry V. Levin
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Srikavin Ramkumar

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.

v5.12: Noteworthy changes in strace 5.12 (2021-04-26)

2021-04-26T08:00:00Z

Noteworthy changes in strace 5.12 (2021-04-26)

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* Improvements
* Implemented --secontext[=full] option to display SELinux contexts.
* Implemented decoding of mount_setattr syscall introduced in Linux 5.12.
* Updated decoding of IFLA_BRPORT_* netlink attributes to match Linux 5.12.
* Updated lists of DEVCONF_*, IORING_*, KVM_*, MPOL_*, MTD_*, NFT_MSG_*,
RESOLVE_*, RTM_*, ST_*, and V4L2_* constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.12.

* Bug fixes
* Fixed build using bionic libc.

* Portability
* Added binutils 2.36 support to --enable-mpers builds.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

* Alyssa Ross
* Baruch Siach
* Deborah Brouwer
* Dmitry V. Levin
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Renaud Métrich
* Vineet Gupta
* наб

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.

v5.11: Noteworthy changes in strace 5.11 (2021-02-17)

2021-02-17T08:00:00Z

Noteworthy changes in strace 5.11 (2021-02-17)

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* Improvements
* Implemented poke injection (--inject=SET:poke_enter= and
--inject=SET:poke_exit= options).
* Implemented decoding of epoll_pwait2 syscall introduced in Linux 5.11.
* Implemented decoding of GPIO_* ioctl commands.
* Implemented decoding of FS_IOC_FS[GS]ETXATTR, FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS,
and FS_IOC32_[GS]ETFLAGS ioctl commands.
* Implemented decoding of SIOCADDMULTI, SIOCDELMULTI, SIOCGIFENCAP,
SIOCOUTQNSD, SIOCSIFENCAP, and SIOCSIFHWBROADCAST ioctl commands.
* Implemented decoding of UBI_IOCRPEB and UBI_IOCSPEB ioctl commands.
* Implemented decoding of V4L2_BUF_TYPE_META_CAPTURE,
V4L2_BUF_TYPE_META_OUTPUT, and VIDIOC_QUERY_EXT_CTRL ioctl commands.
* Updated lists of BPF_*, BTRFS_*, CLOSE_RANGE_*, ETH_*, IORING_*, KVM_*,
PR_*, PTRACE_*, RTA_*, RTAX_*, RTM_*, RTNH_*, SCTP_*, SO_*, SYS_*, UFFD_*,
and V4L2_* constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.11.

* Bug fixes
* Fixed decoding of SIOCGIFINDEX, SIOCBRADDIF, and SIOCBRDELIF ioctl commands.
* Fixed decoding of FIO[GS]ETOWN, SIOC[GS]PGRP, and SIOCATMARK ioctl commands
on alpha, mips, sh, and xtensa architectures.
* Fixed fork--pidns-translation test on sparc and sparc64.
* Fixed build on hppa with uapi headers from Linux >= 5.10.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

* Dmitry V. Levin
* Elvira Khabirova
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Kent Gibson
* Philippe De Muyter
* Sven Schnelle

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.

v5.10: Noteworthy changes in strace 5.10 (2020-12-14)

2020-12-14T08:00:00Z

Noteworthy changes in strace 5.10 (2020-12-14)

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* Improvements
* libdw-based stack tracing is now enabled for non-native personalities.
* Implemented decoding of process_madvise syscall introduced in Linux 5.10.
* Updated decoding of pidfd_open syscall to match Linux 5.10.
* Updated decoding of membarrier syscall to match Linux 5.10.
* Updated lists of ALG_*, BPF_*, INET_DIAG_*, IORING_*, KEY_*, KVM_*, MDBA_*,
MEMBARRIER_CMD_*, MS_*, NLMSGERR_*, NT_*, STATX_*, SEGV_*, and V4L2_*
constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.10.

* Bug fixes
* Added clock_gettime64, clock_settime64, clock_adjtime64, and
lock_getres_time64 syscalls to %clock trace class.

* Portability
* Implemented workarounds for -Wall regressions in Red Hat gcc 11.0.0-0.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

* Dmitry V. Levin
* Elvira Khabirova
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Khem Raj
* Renaud Métrich
* Sven Schnelle

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.

v5.9: Noteworthy changes in strace 5.9 (2020-09-24)

2020-09-24T08:00:00Z

Noteworthy changes in strace 5.9 (2020-09-24)

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* Improvements
* Added -n/--syscall-number option for printing syscall numbers.
* Added --pidns-translation option for PID namespace translation (addresses
Fedora bug #1035433).
* Implemented decoding of close_range syscall.
* Implemented decoding of TEE_* ioctl commands.
* Implemented decoding of struct msginfo argument of IPC_INFO
and MSG_INFO msgctl syscall commands.
* Implemented decoding of struct msqid_ds argument of MSG_STAT
and MSG_STAT_ANY msgctl syscall commands.
* Implemented decoding of struct seminfo argument of IPC_INFO
and SEM_INFO semctl syscall commands.
* Implemented decoding of struct semid_ds argument of IPC_SET,
IPC_STAT, SEM_STAT, and SEM_STAT_ANY semctl syscall commands.
* Implemented decoding of struct shminfo argument of IPC_INFO
shmctl syscall command.
* Implemented decoding of struct shm_info argument of SHM_INFO
shmctl syscall command.
* Implemented decoding of struct shmid_ds argument of SHM_STAT
and SHM_STAT_ANY shmctl syscall commands.
* Updated lists of BPF_*, CAP_*, FAN_*, IFLA_*, INET_DIAG_REQ_*,
IORING_FEAT_*, IP_*, IPV6_*, KVM_*, NDA_*, PTP_PEROUT_*, RTPROT_*,
and V4L2_FMT_FLAG_* constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.9.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

* Dmitry V. Levin
* Elvira Khabirova
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Ruinland ChuanTzu Tsai
* Tom Stellard
* Ákos Uzonyi

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.

v5.8: Noteworthy changes in strace 5.8 (2020-08-06)

2020-08-06T08:00:00Z

Noteworthy changes in strace 5.8 (2020-08-06)

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* Changes in behaviour
* Modified %process class to contain system calls associated with
process lifecycle (creation, exec, termination):
kill, tkill, tgkill, pidfd_send_signal and rt_sigqueueinfo are added,
arch_prctl and unshare are removed.

* Improvements
* Implemented decoding of faccessat2 syscall.
* Implemented decoding of LOOP_CONFIGURE ioctl command.
* Updated decoding of io_uring_setup syscall to match Linux 5.8.
* Updated lists of AUDIT_*, BPF_*, CAP_*, ETH_*, INET_DIAG_*, IORING_*,
KEYCTL_*, KVM_*, LOOP_*, NDA_*, RTC_*, TCA_*, STATX_*, and *_MAGIC
constants.
* Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.8.

* Bug fixes
* Added statx syscall to %fstat trace class.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports. These include:

* Chris Packham
* Dmitry V. Levin
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Janosch Frank
* Steve Langasek
* Sven Schnelle
* Ákos Uzonyi

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.